Friday the 13th
Deluxe Edition
Kill... Kill... Kill... Uncut
Rip into a chilling new Uncut Deluxe Edition of Friday the 13th. With the addition of unrated footage, and insightful special features, plunge deeper into the film that spawned eleven sequels and the genre's unstoppable bad guy, Jason Voorhees. A new owner and several young counselors gather to reopen Camp Crystal Lake, where a young boy drowned and several vicious murders occurred years earlier. They're ignored the locals' warnings that the place has a death curse... and one by one they find out how unlucky Friday the 13th can be as they are stalked by a violent killer.
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start of the legend - dsfan
well folks, this is where it all begins. this is where the the legend starts. in this movie jason's mother pamela voorhees is the killer. at the end of the movie pamela get's her head chopped off with an oar by alice. it is presumed that jason watched tis in hiding because in starting in friday the 13th part 2 her son jason (a really ticked off mamas boy)goes on a killing rampage. and the rest they say is movie history.The one that started the series - outlander78
I grew up ignorantly believing that this was the slasher that started them all. In fact, it was made years after the slasher craze started, and was largely made to cash in and make money. However, artistically corrupt or not (love using that phrase for this movie), this movie makes good use of its low budget to give chills, scares and slashes. Unlike any other in the series, the killer is a bit of a mystery, which is as big a twist as one can ask for in a slasher.
For fans of Friday the 13th or slasher movies in general, I highly recommend this one – the first four are all classics in the genre."Then He's Still Out There" - revsdd
It's hard to be objective with this movie. I've never seen it before, but it's spawned so many sequels and become such a part of popular culture that it's stamped into my mind anyway. Trying to be objective I'd say it's not bad. It's not as good as what I would think of as the classic of the slasher movies (1978's Halloween) but it has some moments of pretty good suspense and somewhat surprisingly I found that it wasn't a "gore-fest." There's violence and blood but the murders, while they're portrayed, tend to be shown quickly and the movie moves on quickly. The setting effectively creates atmosphere - it's set in a remote camp about to be re-opened following the murders of two counselors 20 years before. Those murders kick off the movie. There's some decent camera-work, the camera serving as the eyes of the killer, and at times that effect is used when the camera isn't being used as the eyes of the killer, so there's a bit of uncertainty for the viewer. It is a bit of a chuckle that this movie uses as its setting the classically bad opening of terrible novels ("it was a dark and stormy night.")
The performances were OK, if a little bit forced and artificial. Adrienne King did a good job near the end of the movie as the terrified Alice. Kevin Bacon had a role in this as Jack, but it wasn't the lead role, and no one else from the cast rose to any stature in Hollywood. There was certainly no Jamie Lee Curtis (see Halloween) among the female leads, although there were many shots of cute young women in various stages of undress!
Strangely, knowing the basic outline of how the series progresses adds to the suspense at the end of the movie about the identity of the killer, and gets you wondering how this can lead to the sequels it led to, although Alice's last line - "then he's still out there" - establishes that sequels were already on the minds of the producers. I'd watch Part 2 now out of curiosity, which I guess is a compliment to Part 1.
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start of the legend - dsfan
well folks, this is where it all begins. this is where the the legend starts. in this movie jason's mother pamela voorhees is the killer. at the end of the movie pamela get's her head chopped off with an oar by alice. it is presumed that jason watched tis ...The one that started the series - outlander78
I grew up ignorantly believing that this was the slasher that started them all. In fact, it was made years after the slasher craze started, and was largely made to cash in and make money. However, artistically corrupt or not (love using that phrase for this ..."Then He's Still Out There" - revsdd
It's hard to be objective with this movie. I've never seen it before, but it's spawned so many sequels and become such a part of popular culture that it's stamped into my mind anyway. Trying to be objective I'd say it's not bad. It's not as good as what I ...